On 13/03/2020 Deputy Commissioner Jammu Ms. Sushma Chauhan IAS, today launched ePASS service in District Jammu for persons residing within  red zone areas as a proactive measure for COVID19 containment in District Jammu in order to allow restricted movement out of these zones particularly for attending to medical emergencies,. Speaking on the occasion Deputy Commissioner Jammu informed that “this service will benefit emergency movement of public of these areas who are otherwise not allowed to move out of containment zones as per prescribed guidelines. Now after the launch of this ePASS facility, any person in a situation of emergencyresiding in the pre definedred /containment zones can now apply online by going to the web site https://jammu.nic.in/COVID19 and clicking on the link ePASS service. The applicant will then be redirected to a web site for filling some details like their own particulars, purpose for which the pass is required”.

 

Deputy Commissioner also informed that though initially this service is available only for red zones, which shall be subsequently extended to entire district.Deputy Commissioner Jammu Ms. Sushma Chauhan IAS appreciated the services of NIC HQ New Delhi, SIO NIC J&K and particularly DIO NIC Jammu for bringing the application to work in just 48 hours after discussion. Also present during the launch of the red zone ePASS service were Sh. Satish Sharma and Sh. Hitesh Gupta, KAS, deputed in DC Office Jammu as officers on special duty for COVID containment.

 

NIC J&K has designed and developed this generic service with the requirements of the entire state in mind and, initially, it is being launched in District Jammu. Subsequently, any District of J&K UT interested in subscribing to this service can be on-boarded seamlessly with very little effort by customization on the Service Plus framework of National Informatics Centre (NIC).

At present, this application has been replicated in Six more District of J&K i.e. Kathua, Reasi, Doda, Anantnag, Pulwama and Srinagar and will be replicated in   the remaining District soon.